A Guide To GOOD Fuzz Tone (With Any Fuzz Pedal)
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2022
- Does your fuzz pedal sound bad? Here's my guide on how to getting that fuzz pedal sounding right. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Pedals I use and recommend:
- ThorpyFX The Dane (EU: tinyurl.com/mr67ntjx / UK: tinyurl.com/yyh3pkaj)
- ThorpyFX Peacekeeper (EU: tinyurl.com/2p9hh2wv / UK: tinyurl.com/2s4cypwc)
- Browne Protein (tinyurl.com/4w66w3sx)
- JAM Pedals Delay Llama mk. 3 (EU: tinyurl.com/ynwh9pns / UK: tinyurl.com/2p8t87aw)
- JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk (EU: tinyurl.com/mr5chc9d / UK: tinyurl.com/4wujx924)
- Reeves Electro ZO: (tinyurl.com/yc46vrry)
- Line6 HX Stomp (EU: tinyurl.com/3kj5u8y6 / UK: tinyurl.com/48a9bkct)
- Isle of Tone Haze 67, Haze 69 and Luxe 64 (tinyurl.com/wfjw9xzt)
- Dominion Fuzz (tinyurl.com/4fjp8y3x)
- ExpressoFX Silicon and Germanium fuzz (tinyurl.com/2ws4wjwd)
- OCE Pedals The Wrench (tinyurl.com/mrx4ysts)
- Chase Bliss Preamp MK II / CXM 1978 / Thermae (tinyurl.com/3tpu2yzd)
- GFI Orca (EU: tinyurl.com/43y9xajv / UK: tinyurl.com/26989w87)
- Alexander Pedals Rewind (EU: tinyurl.com/49xsc87r / UK: tinyurl.com/3cpzxmja)
- Cornerstone Gladio (EU: tinyurl.com/36768th2)
Amps I use and recommend:
- Blackstar St. James EL34 (EU: tinyurl.com/37yfskyw / UK: tinyurl.com/56prb9yt)
- Silktone Amp (tinyurl.com/2rsu7sxd)
- Victory V140 Super Duchess (tinyurl.com/2p9j53su)
Guitars I use and recommend:
- Panucci Guitars (tinyurl.com/2p8wctxd)
- Heritage H-150 Custom Core (EU: tinyurl.com/434535nc / UK: tinyurl.com/5t3nppjh)
- Martin 000-28EC (tinyurl.com/2p8phc66)
- B&G Little Sister (tinyurl.com/5n8cvnfj)
- Maxwell guitars (tinyurl.com/mr8w5rv3)
The other stuff I use:
- Curt Mangan Pure Nickel (tinyurl.com/yarsvwaa)
- Ernie Ball Regular Slinky (EU: tinyurl.com/uxz6sxyc / UK: tinyurl.com/3n9ch44x)
- Elixir 12-53 (EU: tinyurl.com/4bs5nz6d / UK: tinyurl.com/aysb4e5z)
- Dunlop picks (EU: tinyurl.com/4jf9eaer)
- Shubb capo (EU: tinyurl.com/b5an9uky/ UK: tinyurl.com/bdz7vck8)
- Gary Clark slide (EU: tinyurl.com/mvsxutwr)
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This is just about the only video on UA-cam that emphasizes that Amp Volume is essential to getting those famous unique Fuzz clean tones - and the reality that 98% of us can't play that loud at home. Subscribed.
Great video!
My tone recipe would be to first max the fuzz and then lower your guitar volume until you achieve a bright hairy clean, if it doesn’t clean up enough lower your fuzz until it does, now EQ your amp to get the perfect “clean fuzz” sound that cuts. Now you can max your guitar volume and get the all- out fuzz tone. Fuzz should ideally give u 3 tones, clean, rhythm and solo
These are awesome tips! Trying it now
So..... when YOU (yes, in particular) play using a fuzz, you use it as you ONLY gain stage?
I've been trying to make a fuzzface work in my pedalboard, maybe im doing it wrong but..... I can only make it work if I:
EQ around it (using a pedal or the amp)...
Place it first in the chain...
Have no other gain stages.... or just slight boosts in front of it to "color" the sound.
@@Fernando-ry5qt I usually have my fuzz into an amp that’s breaking up. My gain stages are always done with my guitar volume knob
Cool man.I'll try it
that jacket/guitar combo is FIRE
I was thinking the same thing.
Living near Montreal, Canada, I'm glad to see a Electric Mojo Guitars tshirt! Great explanations!
i give them a ton of business cheers from Ontario Canada.
Yes! Charles is awesome!
Charles is awesome indeed & I’m glad to have 7-8 pedals from him with more in the future-fast delivery and excellent customer service! I’m in Ontario
I can recall watching Chris Buck changing tone with fingers and gtr ctrl . Just by trying to imitate him, i automatically loved my pedal. Goes from Roger Mayer to my ChaseBliss mk2 preamp. I find my Spitfire more forgiving. I've heard good thing about the elect ladyland one.
Go for the real deal. I communicated with Sir Mayer, i wanted to mod my Rocket pedal, though it was not possible, he's been a gentleman and took time to explain.
I love to use the spitfire as a boost, which is rare with me. I never heard a fuzz producing a modern lead sound like the Spitfire in my life.
I was looking for a good fuzz pedal and this guy just gave a master class on how to make one work.
Great insight, especially the tip about the vibrato. Good advice in general!
Great advice Sasha, can’t wait to try these out with my Fjord fuzz Beserk!
This is a brilliant video! So articulate and helpful.
Awesome, thanks a lot for all those great advices.
Excellent info as always!!
I have seen many many other guys videos before buying my first fuzz, and its the first time someone explains me I require saturated tubes or an overdrive pedal, and shows how the different options sounds. Thank you so much.
Since early 2020 I've been watching a lot of videos, because I built my first pedalboard and really got into different pedals and what they do, and also gear videos are pretty fun. But in these three years I haven seen anyone do a video about fuzz this way. Maybe I should have done a specific search... Great tips that I'll definitely try myself!
This is amazing content Sasha, great tips man!
Certainly a proper, concise (giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive), use and approach to the Fuzz, thank you very much indeed. Cheers.
Thank you! I was really struggling getting a good sound out of my fuzz. Volume knob full up and use fuzz pot to get rid of noise. Awesome. 😊
Congratulations! Great explanation!
Cool upload Sasha. More like these would be awesome
Great advise!
Thanks for a great video!
ha, i just ordered my first fuzz after years n years of playing (fjord fuzz kvasir) will def use your tips to get a good sound out of it!
bedankt!
Great video. I got into fuzz this year and love the way you can get so many sounds just by playing with guitar's volume and tone knobs. I run a boost (or two) after it. A bias knob or and trimpot can be useful if you like to starve the circuit of V (low battery glitchy effect). This sounds bad at low volumes but loud in a mix can make the guitar sound very present.
Very useful, thank you.
Absolutely killer Sasha
That expresso fx fuzz is awesome 👌
Great video! Learn something knew every day. Sub'd.
Great video, thank you
Found you via Reeves Electro. I own Marcus' 2N2 Face pedal. I will try some of these techniques out. Thank you!
sounds great!
this is awesome content and really rewarding to dig into. When I get a new fuzz pedal I dont even judge it after first testdrive because after a while I sometimes found combinations that I really did not at all have on my mind at first and found in the end that that gave me some of the best tones I ever achieved. My latest example is that I have used a treble booster (Analogman Beano Boost which imo is very close to fuzz) in combi with JHS Angry Charlie V3 Pedal into Pedal Platform Amp and found that was absolutely amazing. The ExpressoFX Fuzz seems to be a stellar piece of gear !!
ive always done that for my tonebender fuzz, running a treble boost through it cleans up the sound so much and lets it cut through alot better
I think the one thing to mentioned that I only just figured out is to keep the volume knob on the guitar itself lower. I keep mine at 3, turn the fuzz on and slowly raise the volume. It goes from cleanish to great tone that’s fuzzy but still getting dynamics. If I have the knob at 10 it’s too hairy and just sounds muffled. It’s great to be able to control the sound without having to bend down and tweak knobs all day. 😁
Great video! I always wonder just how much gear gets returned or sold simply because the player doesn't quite know how to get what they want out of it and end up frustrated.
Very helpfull insight about a very deep topic, getting fuzz right is like the biggest rabbit hole on the internet when it comes to guitar.
What's your thought about all the before / after boost debate for fuzz ? I'm currently using the Russian Big Muff with an overdrive before to sharpen the tone a little bit and fixing the dull sound with no middle you discribe and it seems that putting a boost after the fuzz just makes it noisier.
Cheers from France !
I tried cranking my Laney LX12 and it didn't work. It's a 12 watt 6.5" speaker combo. However today I increased the drive on my Joyo American Sound, which is a Fender Deluxe amp in a box. The tone for my MXR Blue Box & Joyo Voodoo Octave (I bought a second one, since I found out the hard way that destroyed the previous one with a power adapter with lower voltage) were MUCH better, and I figure with a little more experimentation, I can get better tones.
I hope readers don't get fooled by the small amp im using now, but it's much brighter and louder than the 100 watt bass head I was using in the past.
I think I may be on to something also. I usually listen to vintage rock through that amp, Hendrix, Zeppelin and the stoner metal band Sleep. So I was wondering if it's possible to get a cheap solid state amp (or tube for that matter) sounding as 'professional' as the tones on those recordings played through the amp. I'm sure with the right gear you can penetrate those barriers quite easily! I mean you play through a 12 watt too Sasha, and the tones are killer, but then there's a concern about headroom. I'll be honest, I know nothing about headroom, because Barbados is a third world island, and tube amps in this country are extremely rare, and most people can't afford high end gear. I do however want to save for a Fender Champion 100 that's for sale at a local music store. It will cost me around $1050 Barbadian ($525 US), I'm mainly buying it to experiment with loud tones. My neighbours actually don't complain much when I play loud, so it's all good practice for future live gigs and a mental investment for my future professional career in music.
I still want a Dominion Fuzz or Isle Of Tone Haze 69 out of curiosity and also as a treat for myself. I hope Erin can build a fuzz that sounds like that low E string slide on '1983' right after he sings "I can hear Atlantis full of cheer" in the right channel.
I also hope Erin can build one that sounds like The Stooges' Raw Power disc 2 live tracks, particularly 'Head On'. 😎
Thanks again for your brilliant insight Sasha!
That's a beautiful guitar!
great video
A lot of fuzz pedals do truly like at the very least a “pushed” or “loud” clean tone and above. At lower volumes, using some level of OD is the best option without it losing mojo. In the case you can play super loud, so as you please!
i like the kingrone bluespower with dandrive austin pride the best tones i ever got.
Using a Fuzz Phonics EXP CV 7003 circuit fuzz Really a sleeper I've tried so many but this one is for me Even tried the Pedal Pawn with the same transistor but as far as FF circuits I like the Fuzz Phonics....I need to try an early Big Muff clone Supposedly Jimi used a FF together with a prototype Muff on his last recordings in 70
This save the day
My favorite tones were the fuzz combined with the Protein Green-soon to be released as its own pedal by the way-dynamic, creamy, and fuzzy.
this is the way. Glad I’m not the only one to do this
Fantastic video as always, something I found is that despite having nothing but mids and a bit of a crunchy tone my fuzz pedals still get a bit lost in the mids but using a klone cranked makes all my fuzz pedals sound amazing
I have a Tumnus deluxe. You say using the Klone cranked, are you referring to the gain or volume on it? Thanks in advance.
@@seanjessie9921 the gain - klon style pedals have a quirk which makes the mid hump grow larger and larger as you increase the gain, so the more mids you want, the more overdrive you'll have to add from the pedal
@@dicecard921 Awesome. Thank you. I’m still trying to make fuzz work in my rig. So far, my JHS Bender is giving me the best bang for my buck. I really want my Hendrix fuzz face mini and my band of Gypsy’s fuzz face mini to work too! Haha. Thanks for the tips.
I max out my MXR Blue Box and stack it with either an 808 Tubescreamer clone or the Boss DS-1. The DS in particular gives you an amazing tone. I have the level at noon, tone at 9 o clock and the distortion at 12 o clock when stacking. I also use an amp sim based off of a Fender tweed amp, it's a Joyo American Sound. I use that pedal as an always on boost. It gives my 12 watt Laney LX12 amp more character. I'm still not sure why some solid state amps need a preamp pedal to sound better. Maybe you can explain why Sasha? Are some solid state amps built without preamps or is there another factor involved?
Great video. Short, focused and great tips around some of the subtleties - so many fuzz demos just go straight to the sound with no analysis of how to get there. More of these short vids on tweaking the rig please! That Karl Longbottom guitar looks gorgeous btw - I’ve tried one of these and not only did it play great but those firebird style pickups are a revelation. What difference do you think that style of pickup makes to the fuzz, and especially the attack dynamics you demonstrated at the end?
Public Service is what you’re doing here Sasha! Thank you! This one helped me a lot!
Do you plan to do a video on the brown amplification protein? Hope so! Lol
I would love to know more about your rig here. Amp? Amp sim? Onboard reverb? Rev pedal? Delay? Love the sounds.
I’ve been using a Boss FZ-1w into my dirty channel but rolling the volume back on my guitar.
What is that guitar? It sounds great!
Do you have any tips for dialing in the perfect cleanish fuzz tone?✌️
Thanks so much. How dial with mids for scoop fuzz ?
I finally get the riding your volume control to use fuzz better, what taper volume control do you prefer / 10, 20 or 30% audio taper?
Man I have no idea. Whatever’s in the guitar. I’m simple like that 🤣
I dont know if people really understand why Boutique pedals cost as much as they do. It depends on what you're buying but let's take a vintage style fuzz for example. To produce the sounds that us players are looking for, the caps, resistors and transistors must be chosen, and taken and replaced if they dont match up in the circuit. If it's certain vintage parts that it takes, it's gets exponentially more difficult. The scarcity and degradation from time and elements is just another contributing factor of the price. So it may take months or years just to source the parts and they have to be in large batches for tuning the circuit. So time + labor + parts + skill = a costly but beautiful sounding pedal. Now, grant it, some of the builders are taking advantage but you'll know them when you research their rep. For those of us that just want that ONE, I'd say go for it. You'll spend the same amount buying this one and that one and being disappointed over and over.
Yes, the transistors need to be matched (on a fuzz face/tone bender) if the builders just copy schematics from the internet.
If they know what they're doing, then transistors don't need to be matched.
Any experience with the Kingtone MiniFuzz V2?
I really can't crank my 50W 12'' tube amp in the room (around 70dB) max), so I combine the use of boosts and ODs after the fuzz. My chain is : Fulltone '70 Fuzz > 535Q Wah (true bypassed) > MXR Super compressor > Vibe > Fulltone FD II Mosfet > Fender Engager Boost > OCD > Boost > BOSS DD7 delay. All of those are true bypass except the MXR compressor, two 10' cables, almost no tone loss. The boost at he end is a buffer too. My fuzz is almost always on and I get it to sound right using the Fender boost and OCD after it, all 3 knobs on the fuzz cranked to the max. I have great tones but with some noise and fuzz oscilation which I tame down using the guitar volume knob. The fuzz also cleans up nicely even with the Fender boost and the OCD after it. Raising the overall noise floor is unevitable if you're shaping your tone on a ''quiet'' 50W tube amp. Using analog pedals and tube amp to capture some great vintage tones always coms with some compromise in terms of noise or being too loud or both...it wasn't easy even for Jimi, too.
Just crank your amp and damage your ears. Why bother with all that fake pedals.
Bro please make a solo guitar album if you don’t have one. Love your playing
I have two boosts running all the time, so it’s a pain, I need to bypass them for a good fuzz tone, my fuzz usually sounds best closest to my guitar, no after the boosts.. I need to turn those boosts off otherwise it’s too high gain
Idk, maybe it's my rig. I'm using a Keely Fuzz Bender and tried a Boss SD1 after it. Click on the SD1 and I get some strange sounds. The Fuzz doesn't seem to like my dirty channel much either.
BUT
i want clean tones when bypassed :C and all the headroom from the amp to use delays and reverbs
and i don't use send/returns :D
Well someone spent time coordinating his jacket to the guitar 😂
Great video sir. Fuzziness fulfilment
Voila !!
I have ax3g korg made in Japan will some one guide me to have crunch on this ,??
fuzz knob maxed is what a typical fuzz face sounds like. thats how everyone had it set back in the 60's/70's
The only fuzz pedal I've been able to dig is the LovePedal Dover Drive.
Cool....still using his EPH3 echoplex clone and CoT one knob wonder He has some keepers for sure One I wish I still had was the Tons of Gold or something like that Will have to look it up again Not sure of the name Pounds of Gold or something Two button pedal OD and boost
Overdrive or even distortion after fuzz... That's a thing to try!
OD 1st always
@@7thheaventruth Not necessarily. That's the thing, try before you do. I've had overdrives that just sound awful when distortion or fuzz is put into them. But then I bought the T-Rex Møller, after I saw the guys at That Pedal Show say that it sounds the closest to the King Of Tone of all the pedals that they had there in that episode. And I found that it sounds great wherever you put it. My DOD Carcosa fuzz sounded just a little thin (not as thin as Big Muff or Fire Red Fuzz by Mad Professor. I put the Møller into the fuzz and it was fine. And I don't know why, but I tried the Carcosa fuzz into the Møller and it sounded great. It made the fuzz just sound fatter, heavy AF. So it depends on your overdrive and other pedals, it depends on the combination. The T-Rex Møller works almost with anything and almost anywhere.
@@nedim_guitar am going to look up the T Rex I really
I don’t want a super fatty sound or to heavy thank for your knowledge
@@7thheaventruth T-Rex Møller is very transparent. Some say it's like a Tube Screamer, but it's not that nasally and mid pushed, and it had more low end. I like it as an overdrive and stacked into other pedals.
lol I thought he was wearing an electric wizard shirt I also own as a tip of the hat to fuzzes.
Con un ojo en la carrera el otro en la música JAJAJDJSJJAJA
Hm, sounds like you’re still struggling here yourself.
Firstly, the fuzz sounds way better into a slightly cleaner amp (the famous edge of breakup). This way you get more „personality“ out of it. When cranking the amp or putting an additional gain stage after it, you make every fuzz sound the same since the 2nd gain stage is always dominant. (But to be honest this pedal doesn’t sound too good to begin with).
Secondly, absolutely DO crank the fuzz knob(!) and lower the vol knob on your guitar instead to control gain. Good fuzz pedals will work wonders this way.
we all can use just one more fuzz pedal
Great stuff! but.... What is that guitar! Give me that thing in a silver burst and I'd sell my first born...
If you want distortion buy distortion pedals not fuzz.
Fuzz isn't nice and that is why it's great.
Title: How to get a good fuzz tone
Video: Bad fuzz tone anyway
You are putting too much mojo mysticism into the fuzz design! Stop sniffing corks!
Only Germanium transistors needs to be matched, but it is only in a few circuits where matched transistors are required, and not all of them.
Silicon fuzzes does not require any matching at all…
Hello Sascha, Which fuzz pedal would you recommend for the early Jimmy Page sounds...I've already tried a few, the newer models have always only been compromises and the good or praised older ones are extremely expensive and hard to come by... do you have any tips? I would also like something older, preferably with OC81D transistors... regards
JHS series 3 FUZZ .affordable and its really cool.
Boutique pedals make no sense... Electronics for these are super cheap.
500 dollar pedals... Feh